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'PERSIAN GULF AND GULF OF OMAN. RESOURCES AND COAST DEFENCES. 1903.' [37v] (81/120)
The record is made up of 1 volume (55 folios). It was created in Sep 1903. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Baghdad
Railway.
68
PERSIAN GULF
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.—RESOURCES AND DEFENCES.
from the two noble lords; and before I do so I wish to point
out to the noble lord who spoke first that he, like a good many-
other people, is under a misapprehension when he conceives that
negotiations have been passing between His Majesty’s Govern
ment and the promoters of the Baghdad Railwav Company.
There have been no negotiations between His Majesty’s
Government and the promoters of the Baghdad Railway
Company, any more than there have been negotiations between
His Majesty’s Government and any foreign Government on this
subject. What has taken place is this. There were confidential
communications—negotiations if you like to call them so—
between His Majesty’s Government and certain representatives
of the great financial houses in this country, with the object of
ascertaining whether the conditions upon which this enterprise
was being undertaken were of a kind which would permit His
Majesty’s Government to offer it any encouragement whatever.
J hose negotiations, as the noble lord told the House, are no
longer in progress. The noble lord expressed a hope that I
might be able to give to your lordships some papers relating
to them. To that proposal I must give an unhesitating negative,
lor that I will give your lordships reasons which, I think, you
will consider sufficient. In the first place, as these communi
cations are no longer proceeding, it is clearly not necessary that
these papers should be supplied to the noble lord for any public
purpose. It we had been, in his opinion, upon a dangerous
incline, likely to lead us to any of those unfortunate results
which he so eloquently described, if he had desired to arrest
our progress by calling attention to the documents, there might
be some reason for requiring their production ; but that is not
the case. 1 here is another reason, which weighs even more
strongly with me. Ihese communications were, as I said just
uoav, of the most confidential character. Now, I am under the
impression that the occasions upon which the British Govern
ment finds itself in such confidential communication with the
representatives of that great organism which we are in the
habit of describing as the City, are of rare occurrence—probably
much rarer in this country than in any other country in the
world. But I (lo say that when those occasions arise, and when
those confidential communications take place, it should be on
the clearest possible understanding that the confidence which is
given ;ind received is respected from beginning to end ; and I
think we should ill requite the manner in which the gentlemen
to whom I have referred have approached this question if we
were to offer any encouragement to the idea that we should lay
before 1 arliament or in any way give to the public the
documents or the purport of the conversations that passed
between us. 1 here is one other observation which I feel
impelled to make on this subject. I make it in fairness to the
persons to whom I have just now referred. It is this—that I
am deeply convinced that throughout these discussions their
object was not only to ascertain from us whether they could
expect at our hands any encouragement for the project in
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The file contains a printed report published by the 'Admiralty, Intelligence Department (No. 694). September 1903.', providing a compilation of available information of naval, military and political value about various locations in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and the Gulf of Oman. Places described include Muscat, Mussandam Promontory, Khor Kawi [Khawr al Quway‘], Elphinstone Inlet [Khawr ash Shamm], Khasab, Pirate Coast [Arabian Coast], Bahrain, Kuwait, Fao [Al Fāw], Basra, Mohammerah [Khorramshahr], Bushire, Lingah and Bundar Abbas [Bandar Abbas].
Much of the information was extracted from the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Pilot, 1898. The report also includes an 'Official statement of British Policy with regard to (1) the proposed Baghdad Railway; and (2) Persia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. generally' given in the House of Lords, 5 May 1903; and advice on collecting information on defences such as defended areas, minefields, ordnance and under-water defences.
Two hand-stamps appear on the front cover and on folio 3, which read, 'War Office Library 27 Nov 1903', and, 'Mobilization and Intelligence Dept. 27 Nov 1903'.
The volume contains seven maps.
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- 1 volume (55 folios)
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The volume contains a frontispiece (f 3) followed by a table of contents (f 4), a list of maps and plates (f 6), a report divided into thirty-seven sections (ff 8-36), an appendix divided into seven sections (ff 36-52), an index to principal places (ff 52-53), and a map pocket holding two maps at the end (f 57).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 57; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: an original printed pagination sequence is present in parallel throughout.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:8v, 9ar:9av, 9r:33v, 35r:42v, 44r:47v, 49r:49v, 51r, 52r:54v, back-i
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